Place:

Whixall
Shropshire

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
described Whixall like this:

WHIXHALL, a chapelry, with a village, in Prees parish, Salop; 1½ mile W by N of Prees r. station, and 4 N by E of Wem. It has a post-office under Whitchurch-. Pop., 978. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield-Value, £120.* Patron, the Vicar of Prees. The church was reported in 1859 as bad. There is an Independent chapel.

Whixall is now part of
North Shropshire
district.
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North Shropshire has changed over two centuries.
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How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth,
History of Whixall in North Shropshire | Map and description,
A Vision of Britain through Time.